Allie Fox- Editing continues

Allie’s album is nearing the completion of editing, what I call the premix stage. I generally like to do at least 90% of the editing prior to mixing so that when the that time comes I’m really able to focus on what’s important. The overall feel and sound of the mix. Although these days I’m generally mixing as I go through the recording stages I don’t like to get to bogged down in editing when mixing- it’s a real distraction. The same goes for adding musical parts. How many times have you found that the part you added on the mix day ends up too loud in the mix? ….

The track we worked on recently was entitled ‘The Mystery Of Life And Death’ and it’s a truly epic piece of guitar music with Cello by Ron Shaw and Acoustic slide guitar by Rod Clements. I added just a wee bit of sampled strings, not so you would notice though as it’s well meshed in with the real parts. This album has been in the making now for nearly four years, it’s took this long mostly because of huge gaps in between recording not because it’s taken that long to do really. Now that we are getting relatively near the end I’m really enjoying the music. It’s just evolved recently into a seriously classic album in my opinion. An album I am really going to enjoy listening to for a long time to come….. I love it!! If I hadn’t produced it I would definitely buy it

Allie is a really great guitar player and composer. She’s also a very good singer but on this record she’s concentrated on instrumentals and the potential for sound tracks here is huge.